Easel.



J. A. SCOTT.

EASBL.

APPLICATION FILED TEB.8, 1912 Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

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' TJNTTED STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

JAMES A. SCOTT, OF NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DENNISON MANUFAC-TURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

EASEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11,1913.

Application filed February 8, 1912. Serial No. 676,357.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs A. Soon, a citizen of the United States,residing at Natick, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Easels, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to an adjustable I easel, the object of theinvention being to provide an easel made of sheet material and one whichcan be collapsed and folded into a small space and which can bemanufactured cheaply and without waste from a single piece of sheetmaterial.

The invention consists in an easel formed as hereinafter described andparticularly as set forth in the claim.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvedeasel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe piece of sheet material from which the easel is formed. Fig. 41 is afront elevation of a modified form of my invention. Fig. 5 is a sideelevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the piece of sheetmaterial from which the easel illustrated in Figs. 4: and 5 is formed.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of thedrawings.

In the drawings, referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 10 is a piece of sheetmaterial, preferably cardboard, which is scored transversely thereofalong the dotted lines 11 and 12. A portion of said sheet material 13 ispartly detached from the main portion of the sheet material along thelines ab, 6+0, Fig. 3, a portion of the line bc being irregular in orderthat teeth 14, 14 may be formed upon the part 13. Said part 13 which ispartly detached, as hereinbefore set forth, from the main portion of thematerial, is folded rearwardly of said material on the dotted line ac toform a flange, as seen in Fig. 2. The part 9 above the line 11 (Fig. 3)forms the front of the easel and the said flange 13 is connected to saidfront along the line a-c extending longitudinally of said front orbetween the top and bottom thereof. The part between the lines 11 and 12forms a base 15, while the part which extends from the line 12 to theend 16 (Fig. 3), forms a brace 17. The free end 16 of the brace 17 ispreferably slitted at 18 and into this slit 18 projects the flange 13.Said free end 16 also is arranged to engage the teeth 14:, 14: upon theflange 13, so that said flange, when bent as illustrated in Fig. 2, willengage the brace 17 and the part 9 can be set at different anglesaccording to which of the teeth 14 the brace 17 is brought intoengagement with. In order to prevent the card or photograph which isplaced against the front of the easel from sliding downwardly on thesurface of the table and away from said front, I provide ears or stops19, 19 which are formed by cutting out a portion of the front 9 andbending them forwardly on the line 11 to form said stops, so that whenthe card or photograph is placed against the front of the easel, saidstops will prevent the card from sliding away from the easel at thelower end thereof.

It will be seen that the easel hereinbefore described is formed of asingle piece of sheet material without any waste thereof and that byfolding it on the scored lines 11 and 12, a front, base and brace areprovided which, combined, make afirm, strong and cheap easel, andfurther said easel is so constructed that it may be doubled on the line11 when packed for shipment and thus take up very small space. It willfurther be seen that by folding the flange 13 rearwardly on a lineextending longitudinally of the front portion of the easel between thetop and bottom of said front portion and then interlocking said flangewith the brace a very stifl and strong construction is secured, as theline a-c along which the flange is folded forms, in effect, a hingewhich has no tendency to fold or close up, but all strain brought tobear upon the parts in use tending to cause the easel to fold up iscounteracted bythe cooperation of the flange 13, hinged longitudinallyof the front portion, and the brace 17, the hinge of which runstransversely of said easelthat is, the two hinged portions 13 and 17 arehinged along lines in planes extending at right angles to each other, sothat one counteracts the tendency of the other to rotate about itshinged portion and thus prevents the easel from collapsing when in use.

In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 a modified form of my invention is illustrated whichis made from a piece of sheet material 10, said sheet material beingfolded on the lines 11 and 12 to form a front portion 9, a base 15' anda brace "17. Two portions 13 and 13 are cut in substantially the samemanner as the portion 13 in the form of my invention illustrated inFigs. 1, 2 and 3, and these portions are folded along the dotted linesac and a 0 respectively (Fig. 6) to form rearwardly extending flanges 13and 13 (see Figs. 4 and 5). Said rearwardly extending portions haveteeth 14, 14: and the flanges 13 and 13 are arranged to project intoslits 18 and 18 respectively, formed in the free end portion of thebrace 17. Said device is further provided with cars 19, 19 similar tothe cars 19, 19 in the other form of my invention hereinbeforedescribed. In using the device the brace 17 is folded upwardly along theline 12 into engagement with the flanges 13, 13 projecting rearwardlyfrom the front 9 and the slits 18, 18 engage the teeth 14, 14 on therear edges of the flanges 13 and 13 respectively. This particular deviceis intended to be used with easels of greater width than the deviceillustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and is also stronger for the reason thatit has braces at two places in the back instead of at one.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire by LettersPatent to secure 1S 1 An easel formed of a piece of sheet mate rial benttransversely thereof to form a front, base and brace, a portion of saidfront being partly detached therefrom and folded rearwardly thereon on aline extending longitudinally thereof to form a flange proj ectingrearwardly from said front and with teeth on its rear edge adapted toproject into a slot provided in the free end portion of said bracewhereby said front is held at a predetermined angle to said base.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JAMES A. SCOTT.

WVitnesses:

SYDNEY E. TAFT, M. E. HORN.

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